SPCR

Semm, what boxes do you have?

I've got only 2 PCs running at the moment, doing some major repackagking/reinstalling, will have 4 running at the end of the week.

mpteach wrote:How do you set up a stat generator? a friend of mine rents a server and gives me an account with insane bandwith for mpteach.com. i use cpanelx.

Fairly involved. Here's a writeup about it from Dyyryath at Zeroth Element Systems, running the Arachnid Stats.

An Overview of the Distributed Computing Stats Engine

It's been quite some time since I've been on here, but it has come to my attention that some infidels are intending to pass me!

I would like to tell them that among other things, my main 2.4ghz athlon has been out for a month. But once I get back to school in a couple weeks I'll have a shiny new motherboard, and I'll be setting up a dusty old one, plus I'll be setting up a few old rigs here. You may think you have won, but I will never let you pass me! NEVER! I will return to the realm of 3.5k+ weekly production and then you will regret you ever crossed paths with me!

Ohhh, I can remember when David was behind me and I was thinking he will never pass me. Now you're near the 4k ppw and I'm losing my green condition from time to time. Go David, that's the spirit. Go SPCR.

The worst thing is that I'm starting thinking of borging, buying or doing something. I want to be in David's noteworthy contributors list again

Take your time, Zhentar. I'd be happy to keep your #5 spot warm for you for a while.

Zhentar wrote:You may think you have won, but I will never let you [infidels] pass me! NEVER! I will return to the realm of 3.5k+ weekly production and then you [infidels] will regret you ever crossed paths with me!

That won't be enough

Laf, like you are anywhere close hays

Mutt_n_head, I have missed your charming presence. Thank you for providing an extra dose of motivation.

At our current rates, I will overtake Zhentar just before my birthday.... in 2007! That's pretty close isn't it?

David

production should be more around a thousand a week pretty soon.

Semm, what boxes do you have?

I've got only 2 PCs running at the moment, doing some major repackagking/reinstalling, will have 4 running at the end of the week.

I have, all running at stock speed a 2200+, a 2.6c, a 2000+, a celery 1.6, a celery 700 (rarely folding, it's a friend's computer), a P-M 1.2 (again, rarely folding), a celery 1.2, a P4 1.6, and some unknown processor. The only ones really producing are the 2200+ and 2000+, and the 2.6c and celery 1.6.

Semm

Okay I'm doomed, I've counted 9 CPUs. I only have 5 CPUs and 4 motherboards

I've got [email protected], 2000+, Duron 2.0Ghz, Celeron 2.7 and p3 1.05 Ghz. I only have 2 Athlon motherboards for 3 CPUs though.

I think after I get all of them running I can be at 1,500 PPW but those new WUs give me significantly lower scores than older ones.

Go get em David .... 2007.... ouch. At the rate you are buying motherboards it might be sooner.

One question, why do you buy different brands when one of them, the Shuttle, seems to work really well? Are you just doing it for variety... which is fine, just curious. Is it to find one that overclocks really well?

I was just making a crack in response to telling Zhentar it isn't enough. It's ironic b/c Zhentar used to say stuff like that to Rusty before he passed him and then he got passed by Lockheed. It's neat to see the rivalry though b/c it just makes the output go higher and higher.

It's funny to watch the struggle going on at the top of the ranks. TRC-13 was kind of throttled back for a long while until Lockheed increased his output and then TRC ramped up... WAY up.... like to the tune of almost 10K points a week. Now after Lockheed has levelled off, TRC has scaled down his output to be a bit higher than Lockheed so as to stay ahead.

I guess when you are running that many rigs you have to scale back b/c you approach the electrical usage of a small city, not to mention that your house becomes a sauna.

That whole lockheed passing me thing was kinda surprising, I remember being in heated competition with him before I borged my parents entire office.

Once I get all my folding returned to normal though, I can't see how I'm going to get higher production

I could log into 40 800mhz lab computers and run FAH until they reboot them at 2:00 AM, but I'd imagine someone would get upset if one user maxed out CPU usage on 40 machines... and of course they'd have my login so they'd find me in minutes

Y'know, you could always ask...Worst they could do is say "no"...

I've switched over to linux (mandrake 9.1) on my 2200+. There'll be a dip in my production today and yesterday, but it'll be back up tomorrow. I used the finstall thing that someone recommended in the linux thread, and looking at the output of "folding status" I came up with an evil idea. It shows what core is running, and if you could set the script up to delete the work log and restart if it detects that the tinker core is running, you could probably jack up your PPW. It's evil because it's bad for the project itself, though. Ah well, just a thought.

Semm

Ya know, I've seen folks complain about the level of Tinkers, even when using -advmethods, but I see MAYBE one Tinker core every other week, between five computers.

I'm just waiting for when they find something interesting with Tinker cores and their 'beta' WUs (which is you get with -advmethods) swap to more Tinker than Gromacs.

Hmmm...I get about 1/3 tinkers and 2/3 gromacs. I guess I need to check to make sure all my boxes are running -advmethods. More when I know more.

Semm

All of my cpu's are getting a steady diet of Gromacs. I have -advmethod specified, but I think there is more to it than that. I get a Tinker occasionally, but I'm guessing less than 1 in 15 Work Units is a Tinker. I am running both Windows and Linux, P4's and Athlons, 3.xx and 4.xx clients under each OS, so it has nothing to do with platform or OS or client version.

David

Besides... the Tinkers have to get done too.

Mutt_n_head wrote:why do you buy different brands when one of them, the Shuttle, seems to work really well?

Short answer: Because I'm looking for the Holy Grail of micro-ATX motherboards and I haven't found it yet.

Longer answer: Of the three boards I have, my favorite is the Biostar M7VIZ. It worked out-of-the-box, accepted any combination of BIOS settings I threw at it, and has completed 14 WU's without a hiccup. The Shuttle is OK, but offers even less in the way of overclocking features, and just features in general, than the Biostar. I'm gonna make Frisbees out of the Abit boards if I have to clear CMOS one more time just to get the friggin things to boot. None of the three boards offers the combination of features I'm looking for, and I'm not that hard to please, I'm really not. I'm trying one more board, an ASUS board, and that's it, I'm done. Unless I decide to try my hand at getting an NForce2 board to work.

David


[Edit] I jinxed the Biostar. Last night I got into the BIOS to change the time (I had set it 12 hours off) and I suppose fiddled with something else while I was in there, and then it wouldn't boot over the NET. It kept saying "exiting PXE BIOS" or something like that and then it would try to boot off another device and of course fail. I will try again tonight to get it running.[/Edit]

ColdFlame...

How's this for neck and neck?

Semm: 1213.23 PPW

ColdFlame: 1213.07 PPW

EOC stats at 10am Pacific time.

Semm

Overtaking at .16 PPW, that 1500 point lead will hold up for awhile (about 170 years)

David

Today is the first time I got a purple frame around my name at Arachyds

Good run Semm, keep it folding

Congrats on the purple frame, Flame.

That's 17th highest daily production on the team, 20th highest weekly total.

Another purple-framed "overachiever" is wgragg - 103rd overall, but with the 14th highest daily total, 19th highest weekly total.

David

Frank_Condron will leapfrog both Lenny and WarpedPlatter on Jan 3 to take over 14th spot overall on Team SPCR, and it won't be long before he's into the Top 10:

13 - Rusty075 1/12 (now 1/13)
12 - Dukla2000 1/21 (now 1/24)
11 - mike_chin 2/2 (now 2/7)
10 - Aphanos 2/8 (now 2/18)

[Edit 1/3/04] Frank's dates have slipped a bit, but it's still just a matter of time. [/Edit]

Semm is in 66th place at the moment, but will jump an impressive 20 places to leap into the Top 50 within the next month.

Yeah, congrats on the frame, ColdFlame!

Keep folding!

One non-interesting race:
Semm will pass me like the wind really really soon. At least I've been some time behind you

C'mon, you can catch me, Mormakil. Borg! Borg!

Semm

Beyonder is Framed!